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Android origins more or less from Linux regardless of still existing differences, so you're using Linux on your phone in one way or another.

As for what Linux Mobile is, take a look here.
That phone runs Ubuntu which is developed this way that it can run on such hardware.
For that, it uses the AOSP as a base and adds various parts from the big PC Ubuntu you know and like to the mix.

Other examples are Plasma Mobile that also uses an AOSP base but runs with qt and Plasma libs instead of Ubuntu stuff and SailfishOS, an OS used on a phone that has its own little userbase.

Infact you can run all these more or less on Google's Nexus devices (can't say anything about the Pixel branch), other devices might work but then it's only a minority in a sea of devices.

At least from a security perspective, Android is very lacking from the perspective of being a “Linux Distro”. The great thing about regular Linux distributions is that you can download any program from the repositories and be absolutely sure that it doesn’t have any malicious code. Unfortunately, Google’s code screening process isn’t good enough to keep bad apps out of their app store. Apple’s app approval process might take ages, but it keeps users safe by keeping malicious apps out of the app store. Sure, some malicious apps have slipped through the cracks, but those are just a drop in the bucket compared to the malware that made it through Google’s code screening process.

please have a look at the librem 5 at http://puri.sm
and a related thread here on LQ.

Yeah, I heard about that a few weeks ago. I'm just not sure how successful it will be. Just look at Ubuntu Phone - it didn't last long, even with having some mainstream apps by making it easy to port Android Apps to Ubuntu Phone. We'll just have to wait and see if the Librem 5 will be successful.